Approved Tech Utai Force Detector

[Janick Beauchamp]

The signal processing equipment

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To provide a detector of Force-users that can be mounted on vehicles
• Image Source: Honeywell Aerospace
• Canon Link: N/A
• Restricted Missions: Securitized Witch Brew - the crystals of the first batch are alchemized
• Primary Source: Lifeform scanner

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Utai Magic Circle
• Model: Utai Force Detector
• Affiliation: Closed-Market
• Modularity: Yes: varying cable lengths
• Production: Semi-Unique
• Material: Alchemized kyber crystals, alchemized electronics

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Lightsaber resistance
• Four red alchemical kyber crystals

Strengths:

• Lightsaber-resistant crystals
• Directional detection can be achieved in detecting Force-users up to 300m
• Can also detect Force-nexuses, Force-radiating objects and other Force-anomalies of that nature

Weaknesses:

• Carrying a Utai Force Detector can make the mount vehicle easier to detect in the Force regardless of the size
• Its alchemical properties can be neutralized by someone using Force-nullifiers
• Cannot detect FUs near Force-nullifiers
• Significant margin of error at longer ranges
• The effective range of the Force-user detection part decreases for each antenna crystal that is disabled; with one disabled crystal, the effective sensory range falls off to 150m, with two disabled crystals, the effective sensory range falls off to 75m, with three disabled crystals, the effective sensory tange falls off to ca. 30 meters around the remaining crystal
• The detection resolution of Force-sensitives and of Force-radiating objects near a Force-nexus sharply decreases the closer the detector is to the nexus
• Using the detector near a nexus or an area/planet that is heavily saturated with the Force provides heavy amounts of interference

DESCRIPTION
Due to the levels of threat Force-users pose, the Utai Force Detector is intended to allow NFUs in vehicles to detect Force-users. It is a device that relies on alchemized electronic equipment connected to four artificial kyber crystals made using wood as the base material for the alchemized red crystals connected with cables, called the antennae, which are not only lightsaber-resistant, but also treated in a way that they are sensitive to the auras of Force-energy within a certain range around the crystal. These crystals are roughly the size of red kyber crystals as used in lightsabers; as a result, the sensor can be mounted on even very small vehicles. Using a technique known as trilateration, the crystals detect Force-energies with a different signature, as well as its precise location. For this reason, it is recommended not to place all four crystals in the same plane on a vehicle; in fact, the best configuration for the best resolution is to place the crystal in a pyramidal formation.

The crystals are then connected to cables, which will analyze in real time, using Fourier analysis to process the signals from the four antennae, in an alchemized electronics package that takes into account the strength of the Force-signals coming from the crystals. NFU operators have access to a special screen where they can see all the Force-user signatures on the screen within range of the mount vehicle and also inside it.

 

[Elani Zambrano]

Under Review.

 

[Elani Zambrano]

Awesome. Pending Secondary Approval. Thanks! [member="Jamie Pyne"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

[member="Janick Beauchamp"]
What exactly does alchemy do to these crystals that allows them to have pin-point accuracy over such a range in detecting force users? There is absolutely no canonical technology, nor even Chaos technology, which comes remotely close to this in terms of both accuracy and range. There is only a single crystal in canon which allows for the detection of force users, and it relies on closeness in proximity and glowing either red or blue. And the most accurate of force detectors in canon, and on the board, utilize these crystals. Here's the canon force detector, which has a range of centimeters (it needs to be done within personal range), and here's the Chaos variation, which is inaccurate but displays a greater range over a screen. There is also a canon chip sensor which achieves detecting force users in a roundabout way in the form of checking for heightened brain-waves - which of course has a larger margin of error than detecting force sensitivity outright - with a maximum range of twenty meters.

In short, I'm not approving a sensor which detects anyone with such a degree of accuracy at this range, nor any range that could be abused in combat situations. If you want a sensor that can detect with pinpoint accuracy within tens of meters, sure, if you want a sensor that provides a directional detection (i.e; better detection the closer you are, and in the right direction) and ranges in the hundreds of meters then sure, but you can't have an effectively unlimited detection range with pinpoint accuracy.

I would also like to know how anomalies such as force nexuses, objects which radiate the force, and other things which would affect a force user's ability to sense others through the force would impact this.

If you disagree with this judgement you are free to second chance this, but otherwise I will need to see some kind of changes to fall in line with the summarized concerns above.

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

[member="Nadja Keto"] So I reduced the range, as well as the precision, but traded in the ability to detect life forms for the ability to detect other anomalies like Force-nexuses, Force-radiating objects... are there any additional concerns?

 

[Ellie Mors]

Can also detect Force-nexuses, Force-radiating objects and other Force-anomalies of that nature

A force nexus is generally a very large thing with a very large presence in the force, I would suggest adding a weakness which states that detecting other force sensitives and objects becomes more difficult and less accurate the closer one is to a nexus; as well as that using one of these from inside of a nexus or area/planet saturated in the force provides heavy amounts of interference.

After you have done that I believe this is good to go.

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] Done...

 

[Ellie Mors]

Approved.